So far each season -- employing a core, rotating cast of actors -- has been given its own title and distinct storyline. Following the inaugural season's haunted Hollywood manse theme, Season 2, Asylum, was set in the daunting Briarcliff facility for the mentally ill, and the show's witchy third season, Coven, was set at Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies in New Orleans.

Entertainment Weekly revealed that Freak Show will take place in 1950 in Jupiter, Florida and will feature AHS veteran Jessica Lange as a "German ex-pat who is managing one of the last freak shows in the U.S."

Her "freaks" will be played by returning stars Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett, and Frances Conroy. EW reports that Denis O'Hare and Emma Roberts are also in talks to return to the show.